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The Railway SleeperAn exhausted conscript on Nation Service sleeps at Darlington Railway Station en rout to or from a posting to the Northern military base at Catterick, York. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith
The Last Caravan by A. E. BestallA colour illustration by Alfred Bestall showing a fantasy scene where a group of travellers are being spied on from woodland by a centaur and female imps
Class 40 Diesel-electric locomotive - English Electric CoOne of the new 2000 b.h.p. Class 40 diesel-electric locomotives built by The English Electric Company Ltd. in conjunction with the Vulcan Foundry Ltd
HMS Implacable, 1920Photograph of HMS Implacable, formerly the Duguay-Trouin, 1920. This ship was built in France in 1789, served at Trafalgar, and was captured by the Royal Navy shortly thereafter
Eve Before The Fall. By A. E. BestallA scene beside a waterfall of four girls in their bathing costumes. The girls are watching the waterfall, prehaps resting after swimming
The Great Western Railway service from PenzanceThe inaugural trip of the Great Western Railway service from Penzance. The new express service, which shortens the journey by forty minutes
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Forty Fine Ladies, with text by Patrick R Chalmers. The Huntsmans Story -- huntsmen, horses and hounds on a country road and crossing a field. Date: 1933
In Possession. By A. E. BestallThree girls sat on a bank by a stream watching a crab under the water. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years
Forty Winks by C. E. WilsonA dear old lady in a mop cap, spectacles and a tartan shawl has fallen asleep at a table in the middle of reading a newspaper and sewing a patchwork quilt
Elisha and the BearsWhen cheeky children mock the prophet Elishas baldness, God sends two she-bears out of the wood, who tear forty and two of them - God is not mocked, nor his prophet
M. Orr / Ali BabaAli Baba counted forty of them from his vantage point up a tree
Shannon CopierThe Shannon No-chemical Letter Copier copies at the fantastic rate of forty letters a minute - whats more a juvenile may operate it. How does it work? Shannon aren t saying
C17 - 48 TRADESForty-eight depictions of various trades
Constantinople - The Forty Churches - Keurk KlicaOttoman era. Turkey. Constantinople. The Forty Churches (Keurk Klica). Engraving, 19th century
VICTORY AT TRAFALGARThe forty-year old warship carries Nelson to victory and death at the battle of Trafalgar, 21 October 1805 Date: 1805
Greenwich PalaceThe Palace of Placentia, also known as Greenwich Palace, was an English royal residence that was initially built by Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in 1443
Field of Forty FootstepsA view of The Field of the Forty Footsteps in 1830. It was was part of meadow lands at the back of the British Museum, once known as the Long Fields, then Southampton Fields
The Hippodrome Beauty Queens, London, May 1915. 1915
Wardley Hall (The Skull House), near Manchester (completed c.1500) - an early medieval manor house and a Grade I listed building in the Wardley area of Worsley, Salford, in Greater Manchester
Ali Baba in the WoodBlack & white illustration from Ali Baba & the Forty Thieves. Artist: Aubrey Beardsley. Date: 1897
Heinkel HD. 55Heinkel HD.55 prototype catapult launched scout for Soviet battleships. Forty aircraft were acquired by the AV-MF (Aviatsiya voyenno-morskogo flota)
Afghan War - Men of the 10th Hussars drown - Kabul RiverForty-six men of the 10th Hussars are drowned, swept away by the current, as they attempt to ford the Kabul River. Date: 31 March 1879
NEW YORK / 42ND STREETMore people pass this corner in 24 hours than any other point in the world Date: circa 1914
PANTOMIME / FORTY THIEVESDan Leno in The Forty Thieves Date: 1898
The Forty Thieves, a childrens pantomime
The 40 Thieves, a pantomime
The Forty Thieves, a pantomime
Sleeping old man on doorstep, TurkeyAn old Turkish man in cloth cap snoozes on a doorstep in Avenos, Turkey Date: circa 1984
Sleeping pensioners, Norfolk beachAn elderly couple sit in the shelter of a wooden groyne on a beach near Hunstanton, Norfolk, England, and snooze soundly. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1988
Andreas CludiusANDREAS CLUDIUS jurist, depicted in his forty-third year Date: 1555 - ?
The Dance of the Forty-One, Mexico -- a notorious society scandal uncovered by a police raid on a private residence on 17 November 1901, where a group of men were dancing
Bektashi Symbol in Haji Bektashi Veli MuseumA palihenk (large tash teslim - literally the stone of surrender or abandonment - to be worn on the belt) probably belonging to a Dede Baba / chief sheikh in Haji Bektash Veli Tomb Museum in Nevsehir
Ali Baba at the Cave by Rene BullOpen Sesame - Ali Baba at the cave. Date: 1914
The Forty Theives by Ian QueryPromotional postcard by popular artist E P Kinsella for the Forty Thieves by Ian Query for the Lyceum Theatre in London, Christmas 1912
Music cover, Hes Got Em On by Fred CarlosMusic cover, Hes Got Em On, from Robert Reeces burlesque drama, Forty Thieves, sung by T W Barrett, written, composed and also sung by Fred Carlos. circa 1880s
Attack of the 47 Ronin and Ryogoku Bridge, Tokyo, JapanBeautiful Japanese promotional postcard for the Toyo Kisen Kaisha Shipping Company which ran services between San Francisco, China and Japan
Ali Baba & the forty thievesThe forty thieves (cats) hiding in oil jars. Artist: Louis Wain Date: 1903
The Christmas Robbers by William Heath RobinsonA cheery looking cook enjoys forty winks by the kitchen fire, blissfully unaware that an army of mischievous pixies and elves are busy plundering all the Christmas food she has been baking. Date: 1924
Brahmins walking on hot coals near Madras, IndiaNear Madras, India, forty Brahmins of the Soivrasta sect demonstrate their piety by walking on hot coals. Date: 1908
The Duchess of Albany with her grandchildrenThe Duchess of Albany, formerly Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont (1861-1922), and wife of Prince Leopold, pictured in 1910 with her grandchildren
The Pirates Cave. By A. E. BestallAn Illustration of two ladies daring each other to venture into a pirates cave. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986) is best-known as the artist who drew Rupert Bear for thirty years
A Landlady with her a prospective lodgerSeaside Landlady (discussing previous lodger):And to crown it all, she actually wanted to take alf of my lovely pictures down! So I tells er straight, You ain t got no soul for art. I says
Coquette by A. E. BestallA colour illustration by Alfred Bestall of a young girl with auburn hair trying to coax a red squirral down from a tree. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)
The Char-A-Banc. By A. E. BestallA fantasy scene showing two fairies hiding beside a waterfall. They cower from the humans looking from real world above. Alfred Bestall (1892-1986)
French Army in EgyptForty centuries of history look down on Napoleon and the French army
The Forty Thieves by Ian QueryPromotional postcard for The Forty Thieves by Ian Query The man in black carrying a bag of gold is Paul Kruger, a pantomime villain for British audiences during the Boer War
Chu Chin Chow by Oscar Asche. The forty thieves descend into the robbers cave (scene 7). Despite the title, the story was taken from the Arabian Nights
Aid to Russia Route through Persia, 1944One of forty one official photographs of Aid to Russia Route through Persia, 1944. Associated with vehicle maintenance. Associated with World War Two, Middle East (1940-1943) and World War Two